Global earphone shipments are estimated to reach 306 million in 2014, up 12.5% year on year, equaling about USD 6.6 billion by value, up 11.9% from a year earlier. The earphone can be divided into Bluetooth communications, sports earphone, OCC (Office Call Center), gaming earphone, HiFi earphone and normal earphone.

The average price of normal earphone is usually no more than USD 2, while high-end earphone could be worth USD 300. Plantronics and GN Netcom concentrate on OCC, Beats focuses on Pop, Skullcandy dominates sports, Turtle Beach (VTB) and Razer on gaming, while Samsung, LG and Motorola pull attention to Bluetooth communications, Logitech devotes to PC, and established companies like Sennheiser and AKG dedicate to HiFi.

The popularity of high-priced Apple and Samsung’s Galaxy revolutionized earphone market. As mobile phone has become the center of the young people’s life, they are willing to spend USD 300 to buy premium earphones, which have expanded from small niche market of music lovers to mass market of the youth, attracting many brands into the market.

The emergence of Beats radically changed earphone industry. Since the establishment in 2008, Beats defeated all established earphone companies in less than 10 years to put itself on the throne globally. The success of Beats depends not on acoustic fidelity or high price/performance ratio, but exaggerated bass, overwhelming ads and fancy appearance. This stimulated many companies without acoustic background to swarm into the field.

The earphones are manufactured in the form of OEM, and 95% of production is concentrated in mainland China, where a large number of earphone OEMs are located. The gross margin of earphone industry is extremely high, above 50% for branded earphone companies, and no less than 10% for manufacturers. Despite a high gross margin, the marketing expenditure of branded earphone companies is very large, as well as channel cost, resulting in a very low operating profit, which makes brand vendors focus on the market and contract the production to earphone manufacturers.

Hydraulic parts are the crucial basic components to modern equipment manufacturing and widely used in the fields such as construction machinery, metallurgical machinery, plastic machinery, aerospace, machine tool and agricultural machinery. In 2013, the world’s hydraulic industry sales approached USD34 billion, of which China swept over 30% shares and ranked second worldwide.

Although with a certain scale, China hydraulic industry may be well bigger but not stronger, with heavy reliance on importing high-end hydraulic products like medium and large excavator hydraulic parts. In 2011, China’s import value of hydraulic parts was up to USD3.42 billion, being close to 50% of output value of hydraulic industry in the same year; wherein, about 70% of import value came from construction machinery hydraulic parts. Affected by the weak downstream demand over recent years, China’s import of hydraulic parts has fallen, with the import value just reaching about USD2.5 billion in 2013 but still with heavy reliance on high-end imports.

Spurred by this, professional Chinese hydraulic producers, construction machinery (main engine) enterprises, etc have been aggressively involved in the research and manufacturing of top-grade hydraulic parts over the recent years. In particular, the companies such as Hengli Highpressure Oil Cylinder, Shandong Zhongchuan Hydraulic, AVIC Liyuan Hydraulic, and Taiyuan Heavy Machinery Group Yuci Hydraulics have been the producers of high-end hydraulic products.

A superalloy is an alloy that, generally with iron, nickel, and cobalt as its base alloying element, can resist corrosion and oxidation at a high temperature of some 600℃ and can work for a long period of time under a certain stress. It is mainly applied in many fields such as aerospace engines, industrial gas turbines and auto turbochargers. And the superalloy used in aerospace engines occupied approximately 50% of the total engine weight.

In 2009, the demand for superalloy in China reached about 10,000 tons, and this figure went up to nearly 20,000 tons in 2014, with a CAGR of 14.9%. Over the same period, the superalloy output showed a moderate growth, from 8,000 tons in 2009 to 13,000 tons in 2014. There is a growing trend toward the widening gap in supply and demand, and many high-end superalloys have to be relied on imports.

Relying on Central Iron & Steel Research Institute, CISRI-GAONA has great R&D strength and provides a variety of products. In 2014, the company’s superalloy capacity amounted to 3,000 tons, with the market share of about 25%.

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LED lighting decreases labor costs of replacing bulbs in commercial situations. The LED bulbs are implementing new semiconductor technology. The 2013 study has 403 pages, 183 tables and figures. Worldwide LED lighting markets are poised to achieve significant growth as buildings and communities lead the way in implementing the more cost efficient systems. In some cases, the utility plants are providing funding and financing so that lighting users can make the shift to LED lighting.

LED lamps lower the overall cost of lighting. LED lighting costs are less than costs with incandescent lights. LED lamps offer up to 50,000 hours of illumination with a fraction of the energy used by traditional incandescent bulbs. LED bulbs generate 90% less heat than incandescent bulbs. LED bulbs extend time between bulb replacements. The bulbs are used to achieve a near zero-maintenance lighting system.

LED lighting products are coming to market rapidly. Suppliers carry up to 150 different LED bulb and lamp styles to fit the various needs of consumers and businesses.

LED PAR lamps dominate the ENERGY STAR qualified product list, so back in 2012 IEE partnered with TopTen USA and Ecova to develop recommendations for top performing PAR38 and PAR30 LED lamps. The team developed an evaluation protocol that starts with the lamps found in ENERGY STAR’s list, to which we applied product criteria screens and testing to a subset of lamps to determine the 10 top performers. Efficiency along with aesthetics, payback period, and dimming performance were key criteria to the ranking.

LED lighting products face competition in the general lighting market from both traditional lighting technologies provided by numerous vendors as well as from LED-based lighting products provided by a growing roster of industry specialized participants.

The emergence of cost-competitive LEDs has caused a “paradigm shift” in the lighting industry that has changed everything. The LED lighting industry rapid technological change has been brought by enormous changes in the regulations affecting lighting. Short product lifecycles are a result of new manufacturing and materials science that are the result of companies trying to improve the economies of scale to make price points more attractive to customers.

According to Susan Eustis, leader of the team that prepared the study, “Frequent product introductions have characterized the LED lighting industry. There is a highly competitive pricing environment with the current price point of $10 in 2013 per light about to decline to $6 per light. These market characteristics increase the need for continuous innovation.”

Sales of LEDs that outpace incandescent bulbs in North America are expected to soon completely eliminate incandescent bulbs. The LED lighting market is anticipated to grow 45% per year through 2019. The LED lighting market at $4.8 billion in 2012 is anticipated to go to $42 billion by 2019. The reason is the declining price points, the increased interest by the channel in pushing LEDs to consumers. LEDs provide the best lighting solution. The phase out of incandescent lights has begun, the onset of LED command of the market is upon us.

This LED lighting shipment analysis is based on consideration of the metrics for the total number of lights shipped with a likely penetration analysis. Interviews with distributors, vendors, and users provide means for triangulation of data to achieve an accurate look at the market. Interviews include contact with distributors and analysts worldwide.

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China’s Aquaculture crop maintained steady growth during 2007-2012, with that of Seawater Aquaculture products and freshwater aquaculture products recording a CAGR of about 4.7% and 6.1%, respectively. In 2013, China’s aquaculture crop saw a year on year rise of 5.9% and reached 45.4168 million tons. The middle and high-end products like abalone, sea cucumber, white shrimp and tilapia developed rapidly, wherein the crop of abalone and sea cucumber achieved a CAGR of above 10% each over the past five years. With advancement of aquaculture technologies and improvement of people’s consumption level, it is expected that China’s aquaculture area and crop will keep a rapid growth rate during 2014-2017.

China’s aquaculture industry is mostly distributed in eastern riverside and coastal provinces, with main ones having developed their own unique products. Among them, Shandong is the most developed province in Seawater Aquaculture, with its Seawater Aquaculture crop amounting to 4.566 million tons in 2013, a year-on-year increase of 4.7% and ranking first as concerns the crop of marsupenaeus japonicus, mussel, sea cucumber, sea urchin and other products in the country. Hubei is the most developed province in freshwater aquaculture, with its freshwater aquaculture crop reaching 4.104 million tons in 2013, up 11.6% from a year earlier, and the crop of procambarus clarkii accounting for more than 50 % of the national total.

There are numerous practitioners in Chinese aquaculture industry, and most of them are self-employed farmers. However, the aquaculture companies, especially middle and high-end aquatic product farming ones, like Zhangzidao Group Co., Ltd., Dalian Yiqiao Marine Seeds Co., Ltd., Zhanjiang Guolian Aquatic Products Co., Ltd. and Shandong Homey Aquatic Development Co., Ltd. are leading the way in the market by virtue of their advantages in farming waters, brand building, marketing channel, etc.

Lithium battery equipment manufacturing started late in China, although a batch of professional manufacturers have sprung up in succession, the technology of homemade equipment is still less advanced and automated, and some large battery manufacturers have to import equipment from abroad. By contrast, in countries such as Japan and South Korea with excellent basic mechanical processing capacity, lithium battery equipment manufacturers have clear-cut division of labor and accumulation of technological advantages, thus gaining higher share in the Chinese lithium battery equipment market. In 2013, Hirano Tecseed and Kaido MFG accounted for 12.1% and 10.6% of China’s lithium battery equipment market, ranking first and second, separately.

In China, more local enterprises are engaged in the manufacturing of lithium battery-related equipment, but mostly small in scale and occupied in the manufacturing of jigs and fixtures on the production line and semi-automatic equipment for a process. Of all the Chinese lithium battery equipment manufacturers, Areconn Precision Machinery Co., Ltd. enjoyed the highest market share in 2013, reaching 8.4%, followed by Yinghe Technology Co.Ltd.